Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.